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08.06.2003

Who Knew What?

The second anniversary of the day that shook the lives of many as well as the world is looming. It’s a day that I guess, no one wants to see come around each year, but unfortunately it does. Where memories hurt more than any other time of the year.

September 11th each year is a day that I wish I had stayed in my office lobby just one more second, a day when many loved ones wish their family member had not gone to work. But now as I listen to more stories of a breakdown in communication, evidence cover up and missing pages, I have to wonder what is going on?

As a child growing up and schooling in the UK I studied American history. This took on new depths after my first visit here at 14 years old. I was hooked by the greatness of the USA and wanted to know more; what shaped it, how the character of this country evolved.

The more I delved into its past the more I was intrigued. But one thing always came to my mind. There always seemed to be too much information classified as secret in the interests of ‘national security’. Almost as if those that controlled the information were too scared to let the people know. That’s not a bad thing, but when I read more and more adverse media about a possible cover up of events leading to September 11th I have to wonder why? Who is really scared, those that hold the information or those that read it?

Recently the ‘official’ report of the events of September 11th has been published, I am yet to read it, but I shall. What disturbs me are the 28 pages that have been blanked out, once again, in the interest of ‘national security’! Why? Who is hiding what?

Has the government not realized that three thousand families have someone missing at the dinner table? Injured people carry the scars of that day? These people will live the nightmare of the attacks forever. Don’t we all have a right to know about everything, no matter how scary it could be? Why are the American people being treated like children?

This is red herring from the present administration. Another way to pull the wool over all our eyes! I ask why? What are they trying to cover? Who are they trying to protect? What are they trying to protect? What is the motive for this?

Terrorists or pilots of the downed planes were all of Saudi origin, and the missing 28 pages are all about Saudi Arabia . Now why is that? What is our government trying to protect?

We need to know what is on the pages, what the administration knows. Why the blood of three thousand people means nothing. Too many questions are left unanswered. Our government is telling the American people that by deleting the context of these pages that they simply don’t care about their loss. Disgusting!

Did the government or one of its agencies know that something would happen? Each and every person has the right to know and ask these questions. In my opinion; the government and its agencies failed in their duty of care for the citizens of New York , Washington DC and the passengers on the aircraft.

If they did have ‘information’ they did not act upon it properly. I do not feel they knew the attacks would happen on the day, at the time and location they did, but I feel that they did know something. And when you know something, you need to act and act fast.

The FBI parades itself as the foremost law enforcement agency in the world. If so why did the right information not get to the right people? Once again this was a comedy of errors. Errors that cost too much! Could September 11th have been avoided? I don’t know, what do you think?

Ask yourself one question; how different would the world be today if we all went to work and nothing happened on September 11th 2001 ?